Planet KDE
On Friday I arrived back from Berlin where I had the pleasure to work with my great colleague Danimo and our friends from Woboq, Markus and Olivier, in the Woboq Headquarter in Berlin Kreuzberg for a week. We thought that it might be fun to work together…
9 December 2012Planet Mozilla
One of the most repeated questions I get when talking about HTML5 is the following: “How can I protect an HTML5 app from being copied?” Most of the time the question is not that direct to the point but that’s the gist of it. An example is in the Q&A of…
8 December 2012Planet Ubuntu
The previous post introduced readers to the concept of VDEVs with ZFS. This post continues the topic discusing the RAIDZ VDEVs in great detail. STANDARDS PARITY RAID To understand RAIDZ, you first need to understand parity-based RAID levels, such as RAID-5…
5 December 2012Wired Top Stories
The very best basketball free throw shooters can sink the ball about 90 percent of the time. What would it take to get to 95 percent? WIRED's Robbie Gonzalez steps up to the foul line with top shooter Steve Nash to find out.
5 December 2012Wired Top Stories
The very best basketball free throw shooters can sink the ball about 90 percent of the time. What would it take to get to 95 percent? WIRED's Robbie Gonzalez steps up to the foul line with top shooter Steve Nash to find out.
5 December 2012MySQL Performance Blog
I had a customer recently who needed to reduce their database size on disk quickly without a lot of messy schema redesign and application recoding. They didn’t want to drop any actual data, and their index usage was fairly high, so we decided to look for…
5 December 2012Repubblica.it > Homepage
Il dizionario dei "destrutti". Un mondo dove cresce il disprezzo. Per il Cavaliere gli ex socialisti Cicchitto, Brunetta e Sacconi sono "incapaci inutili ...storie correlate * "Liste pulite", l'impegno di Cancellieri "Decreto operativo per elezioni…
4 December 2012Planet Ubuntu
It took me a while to build a complete WordPress blog with all the things I needed, from modifying the default Twenty Eleven theme to broadcasting my posts directly on Twitter. WordPress has a nice selection of plugins and given the fact I spent a few days…
4 December 2012Planet KDE
On the occasion of the large scale usability test of the LibreOffice Writer icons, this article explains how subjective and objective measurements can help to understand the quality of an icon-term relationship. A picture says more than 1000 words. On top…
4 December 2012Planet GNOME
Due to popular request, I’m putting up a polished version of the backup script that we’ve been using over the years at Lanedo to backup our systems remotely. This script uses a special feature of rsync(1) v2.6.4 for the creation of backups which share…
1 December 2012